Endless Legend [PC Game]

Ah, welcome to part #6 of the 'Games I recently bought on a Steam Sale.' There will be several more of these installments to come... I did buy a few too many games on that sale. Including a few duds.
This is not one of those.

I really like how city growth occurs in this game.

Far from a dud in fact.
This game is a close cousin to Civ V, but set in a Fantasy world.

I like that.

4 out of 5 stars

Just like in Civ you have to develop the tech for boats.

Now, not everything in the game is peaches and cream (which is honestly a rather stupid expression, but whatever).
There are elements of the game that are significant improvements over Civ V, and elements that are certainly not improvements.

Improvements:
- Overall graphics. This game is more vibrant, the cities more awesome and impressive.

Instead of Great Persons, you have Heroes.

Elevation is actually a thing.

Instead of Tech Trees, you have Tech Bubbles.

- Combat. This game brings back the older Civ idea of having 'armies' instead of single units per hex. It also includes army size limits so you can't build stupidly huge forces with out significant tech upgrades. However this is not the only improvement to combat. When a battle occurs the game zooms into a tactical combat scenario. This breaks the units out into single unit per hex combatants. Now combat unfolds somewhat like Civ V. I much prefer this over Civ V's method. Civ V's combat is slower, and more drawn out. This combat might be too fast, but I prefer it. A nice middle ground would be best.

- Heroes are cool. You can customize them, equip them, etc. Very fun leaders or either armies or cities. (Units can also be upgraded with better tech and weapons. It's kinda neat.)

Not Improvements:
- Winter is Coming. I'm not kidding, the game includes a mechanic where the world falls into Winter after a variable number of turns. In winter things suck. Do not like this mechanic.

- Overly Complex Victory Conditions. The game has a large number of victory conditions, and they are all rather huge and complex. Even the simple one of economy requires you to possess or have accumulated an insane amount of Dust (money), but not a normal number. Something like 599,900 or something.

- Diplomacy. Honestly this one is kind of a wash, since every installment of Civ has had its own diplomatic foibles and idiocies. In this game, Diplomacy is no better, but now diplomatic actions cost a resource called influence. Sometimes the costs are not small either. (And influence is used for other things as well. So diplomacy eats away from that as well.)

Still in many ways I think this game falls as a nice cousin, or even successor, to the Civ game line. (Which rumors say will have a 6th installment sometime this year. We can only hope.)

This was one my better steam sale purchases. It has the second most hours of any of the games bought during that sale.

Recommended.

All the cities have very distinctive looks.

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